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Blogging from the bush: How ICT-led development is working in rural Zambia | Adam Oxfordhttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/04/computer-technology-development-zambia
The Zambian NGO Machaworks is bringing the internet to rural villages, helping farmers to get better prices. Machaworks hopes its model can be used for ICT-led development across the world<p>Like many teenagers, Hantimba Mzundu spent his Christmas break studying for exams. Few of his peers and predecessors in the rural Zambian chiefdom of Chikanta, however, were hoping to qualify as an IT technician in the new year.</p><p>"I never even expected to see a computer, let alone work with them," Hantimba says. "I thought I would just be settled here as a farmer for the rest of my life." Hantimba's modest ambition is unsurprising. The centre of Chikanta, in the south of the country, is 45km (28 miles) from the nearest asphalt road. There's no electricity or running water, and the majority of its residents are subsistence farmers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/04/computer-technology-development-zambia">Continue reading...</a>Global developmentZambiaWorld newsTechnologyComputingAfricaFri, 04 Feb 2011 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/04/computer-technology-development-zambiaPhotograph: Adam Oxford/MachaWorksInside the LAN centre at Macha, Zambia. Photograph: Adam Oxford/MachaWorksPhotograph: Adam Oxford/MachaWorksInside the LAN centre at Macha, Zambia. Photograph: Adam Oxford/MachaWorksAdam Oxford2011-02-04T07:00:00ZKyrgyz pogrom is international disgrace | Adam Oxfordhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jun/18/kyrgyz-pogrom-uzbek-refugee
The murder and displacement of Uzbeks was a preventable crisis, yet the international community has sat on its hands<p>It is over a week since armed mobs began to murder, rape and burn their way through the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad in Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic Uzbeks have been purged by gangs of Kyrgyz men. Latest estimates place the number of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/17/kyrgyzstan-uzbek-pogrom-refugees" title="Guardian: Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan pogrom vow to return">people displaced by the violence at over 400,000</a>. While the official death toll is still less than two hundred, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/18/kyrgyzstan-death-toll-2000-leader" title="Guardian: Kyrgyzstan death toll could be 2,000, warns leader">Acting president Roza Otunbayeva admitted to the Russian press on Friday</a> that it could be as high as 2,000.</p><p>Why didn't the international community act to contain the violence?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jun/18/kyrgyz-pogrom-uzbek-refugee">Continue reading...</a>KyrgyzstanUzbekistanRace issuesRefugeesWorld newsSouth and Central AsiaFri, 18 Jun 2010 17:30:45 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jun/18/kyrgyz-pogrom-uzbek-refugeePhotograph: Kazbek Basayev/ReutersAn ethnic Uzbek boy walks amid debris of a ruined building in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Photograph: Kazbek Basayev/ReutersPhotograph: Kazbek Basayev/ReutersAn ethnic Uzbek boy walks amid debris of a ruined building in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Photograph: Kazbek Basayev/ReutersAdam Oxford2010-06-18T17:30:45Z